Richard Nelson

For all the kids that don't think they're good enough. You Are! When the young girl in this book asks her family; Mom, Dad, Brother, Uncle, Grandma, and Grandpa, if parts of her body are OK, they always try to relieve her anxiety by telling her that she's perfect the way she is. Children of any age can feel negative emotions and feelings due to the way they look and act, thanks to the social stigmas that they've been around since birth. Share the...

A play about Frank Lloyd Wright set in the summer of 1923, when the great architect has recently left Chicago for California, hoping to mend his relationship with his adult children. Richard Nelson brings to life two great architectural demigods, Wright and Louis Sullivan, only to show their all-too-human frailties.

Budapest's most beautiful young actress is notorious for affairs that only last six months. When she finally marries, she chooses the city's most handsome and talented young actor. Five and a half months later, suspecting his new wife is getting restless, the actor takes on his most daring role yet-disguising himself as a dashing Emperor's guardsman-to test her fidelity and win her love. But the more he woos his wife as this guardsman, the more insanely...

He was a friend of George Washington and a decorated hero of the Revolutionary War. What caused Benedict Arnold to renounce his country and become one of America's most reviled figures? Richard Dreyfuss stars in Richard Nelson's dramatic and surprisingly modern take on the man whose name is now a synonym for being a traitor. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring Samantha Bennett, Steven Culp, Keene Curtis, Richard Dreyfuss, Charles Durning,...

""Sharp, engrossing. a soft-spoken play of ideas."--Time, on That Hopey Changey Thing "A soul-stirring new play. Mr. Nelson has a peerless grasp of the perils of family intimacy."-The New York Times, on Sweet and Sad "Sorry-one of the best plays to emerge this fall in New York-affirms the Apple cycle as the prolific Nelson's most satisfying drama to date."-The Washington Post This critically acclaimed, searing play cycle about loss, memory, and remembrance...

"In this acclaimed three-part play cycle, Richard Nelson--author of the much-lauded The Apple Family plays--deftly embeds the chaotic tension of the 2016 Presidential election into the hyperrealistic family gathering in the home of the Gabriels in Rhinebeck, New York. Each play is set over the course of one evening in the house the family grew up in. History (both theirs and our country's), money, politics, family and culture are mixed together as...

Richard Nelson examines the books of Kings and treats the text as theological literature, emphasizing the literary impact of this important part of the Old Testament canon. Nelson recognizes King's as a useful though uncritical source of historical information, its purpose to transform the beliefs of its first readers, to get them to re-evaluate their identity before God.

Story of a man torn between his joyless marriage to one woman and his lustful desire for another.